Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for governments to spend money to improve Internet access than to improve public transportation. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Which one is worth our tax money, better Internet access or improved public transportation. While some tech fanatics may dictate that the Internet is the priority, numerous facts and realities point toward the direction that public transportation is the more crucial one at the present moment.
Traffic has always been a headache for large cities; it creates chaos and waste valuable time of the commuters. Cape Town, for instance, is notorious for its rush hour traffic. Every morning, people from the suburbs need to travel over an hour in order to reach the city center, when it will only require merely 20 minutes if there were no traffic. If the government put in effort to improving transportation, such as constructing subways or organizing more buses, it would save these poor commuters plenty of time.
Furthermore, government spending on public transportation can reduce the public's spending on transportation. The car, for example, costs an average person a considerable amount of money. There are taxes, fuel, and repair costs involved in owning and using a car. If public transportation becomes convenient and low-cost, people will tend to shift towards this option and save money.
Also, public transportation reduces air pollution. Studies have proven that a bus carrying 20 people produces far less exhaust than 10 cars carrying 2 persons each. Government investments in public transportation can facilitate the reduction of the use of personal vehicles and in turn make the city's air more breathable.
Nevertheless, supporter of the Internet may claim that everything can be done over the Internet; therefore, the internet should be improved first. This camp demonstrates that activities such as shopping can now be done online, thus there is no urgent need for much physical transportation. However, they did not take into the consideration that the goods purchased online still need to be collected or shipped via physical transportation. Although there is drone technology used by companies like Amazon that can deliver these good efficiently without using traditional transportation, this technology has not yet been widely implemented. So until then, public transportation is the priority.
In conclusion, it can be clearly identified that government spending on public transportation has multi-faceted benefits while improving the Internet access does not provide as much actual benefits as of now. Public transportation can reduced time wastage, pollution, and transportation costs. If we were ever to focus on improving the internet, it would probably be some time in the future, not now.
- Toefl Integrated 3
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 43.0788530466 51% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 52.1666666667 65% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 8.0752688172 297% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2221.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 408.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44362745098 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1379508649 2.67179642975 117% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 212.727598566 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580882352941 0.524837075471 111% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4541430395 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.761904762 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4285714286 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.04761904762 5.45110844103 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250858016518 0.236089414692 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0760175147999 0.076458572812 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601479684252 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130835288245 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320788338012 0.0645574589148 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 10.9000537634 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 86.8835125448 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.